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  • Junior Jail: Surviving Mississippi's Juvenile Justice System

    June 08, 2016 |

    Jackson Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

    Juvenile detention usually leads to worse outcomes for youth in the future, while Juvenile Detention Alternatives allow for decreases in detention populations and the likelihood that youth will stay trapped in the system for life.

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  • Juvenile Justice Jeopardy game teaches Cleveland kids about the law: Pathways to Peace

    June 08, 2016 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Misinformation and misunderstanding about the law can lead youth to have accelerating confrontations with the police. Cleveland’s Patrick Henry School offers Juvenile Justice Jeopardy, a game that orients middle school kids to the facts about criminal justice. The game enables youth to internalize the information through an enjoyable format.

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  • Henley-Young Must Release Kids After 21 Days; Some Disappearing?

    June 08, 2016 |

    Jackson Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

    A consent decree ensures juveniles are not held more than 21 days in a Jackson, Miss., facility that was the subject of a lawsuit over the number of children it held and the conditions they faced. But opponents, including a youth court judge, say this is not solving the underlying problems facing the young offenders and even the plaintiffs in the suit says the larger issue is the approach to juvenile justice in the state.

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  • What role did trauma-informed care play in alleged juvenile prison abuse?

    May 31, 2016 |

    Wisconsin Watch |

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    Response Location: United States, Wisconsin

    To reduce violence and aggreesion trauma-informed care become the new standard in Wisconsin for juvenile corrections. However, at the two highlighted facillities there has been greater violence and an investigation of abuse, but supporters still contend that when trauma-informed care is implemented correctly it is successful.

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  • Juvy Intervention Programs Losing Federal Funds

    May 25, 2016 |

    Jackson Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

    Adolescent Opportunity Programs (AOPs) are a pre-intervention method for curtailing juvenile delinquency that have proven vital in the Mississippi state's criminal-justice system - they have the power to prevent young people from entering the system in the first place and save taxpayer costs in the long-term. But federal funding is threatening to run out.

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  • Have You Ever Been Arrested? Check Here

    May 24, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Across the country, new criminal justice campaigns are seeking to redefine how criminal records are both accessed and interpreted. Given that current crime histories fail to denote context and stories of culmination, these new products are seeking to both delay the effect criminal convictions have, as well as reshape how criminal records are recorded.

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  • Nothing But The Truth

    May 24, 2016 |

    The Marshall Project |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Historically, police interrogations of suspects have been brutal and have involved torture. These strategies have also produced a high rate of false confessions. The HIG method, which encourages conversation in a comfortable environment, has shown to be successful in revealing the truth and incarcerating the convicted with confidence.

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  • Machine Bias

    May 23, 2016 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: United States

    Risk assessments are supposed to make the criminal justice system better by predicting which defendants are likely to commit new crimes. Defendant scores are given to judges during criminal sentencing in nine states, and there’s a push to mandate their use in federal prisons. But the risk assessments aren’t accurate, only somewhat more reliable than a coin flip. Black defendants are falsely flagged as future criminals at a high rate while white defendants regularly get mislabeled as low risk.

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  • A day in trauma-informed court: Parents work to regain custody of their kids

    May 22, 2016 |

    Wisconsin Watch |

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    Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    In a regular court it is very difficult for a person with a history of drug abuse to regain custody of their children. The state of Wisconsin is promoting trauma-informed drug courts which offer participants the chance to get their children back if they pass a strict rehab program.

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  • Avoiding the School-to-Prison Pipeline

    May 18, 2016 |

    Jackson Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

    A district-wide approach called PBIS, or positive behavior and instructional support model that focuses on counseling rather than punishment, has curbed behavioral issues at many Jackson public schools, and has even turned many into model sites of positive behavior reinforcement. It has also proven to keep youth from getting stuck in the vicious school-to-prison pipeline.

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